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    From August Abolins@2:221/360 to Sean Dennis on Saturday, September 21, 2019 03:21:37
    In a post between "Sean Dennis : August Abolins", on 9/14/2019 4:34 PM

    I was contemplating of having my next pc upgrade to have a
    main 1TB SSD. Now, I am not sure what to think. :(


    It depends on the quality of the SSD and your usage. A SSD is a very different creature than a SD card. Huge difference. A SSD is
    designed for heavy R/W usage; a SD card not so much. I think you'd
    be fine with a quality brand-name SSD. I'm replacing the 500GB drive
    in this laptop with a 500GB SSD; no moving parts.

    SSDs use flash technololgy too, but this:

    https://danielmiessler.com/blog/the-difference-between-ssd-and-flash-hard-drives/

    ...provided a confirmation that the SSD version of flash is "higher quality".

    Meanwhile, I copied as much as I could off the old SD card, and then I re-formatted it which seems to have revitalized it. The 4Gig card is good enough for temporary storage and transfer of video files until I am done watching them.

    I am also considering the possibility of replacing the 250gig hdd in my trusty T60 Thinkpad with a 500gig ssd and then "retiring" the laptop to be my music storage for FLAC or lossless files of my CD collection and for the offline storage of my growing playlists with Spotify.

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  • From Sean Dennis@1:18/200 to August Abolins on Saturday, September 21, 2019 13:17:11
    Hello August.

    21 Sep 19 03:21, you wrote to me:

    ...provided a confirmation that the SSD version of flash is "higher quality".

    I'd hope so considering the cost however if you get the more expensive high capacity SD cards their quality is much better.

    Later,
    Sean

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  • From August Abolins@2:221/360 to Sean Dennis on Wednesday, September 25, 2019 04:44:35
    In a post between "Sean Dennis : August Abolins", on 9/14/2019 4:34 PM

    .. I think you'd be fine with a
    quality brand-name SSD. I'm replacing the 500GB drive in this laptop
    with a 500GB SSD; no moving parts.

    And hopefully the fan will not need to kick in as often. And.. you will be able to run longer on battery power. The best I can get with my 3rd-party replacement battery for my T60 is 3.5 hours. :(

    So, a SDD has many added bonuses for sure!

    But I just realized that if I were to switch to SDD, I might run into a snag since my 235gb hdd came partitioned like so: C=35gb H=200gb

    How would I be able to reconstitute my existing setup to a larger SDD while still retaining the content on C and H?

    C and H partitioning was not my choice. The laptop was 2nd hand and arrived that way.

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  • From Phillip L Taylor Jr@1:275/201.30 to Sean Dennis on Friday, February 05, 2021 19:15:09
    On Sat 21-Sep-2019 9:17 , Sean Dennis@1:18/200.0 said to August Abolins:

    21 Sep 19 03:21, you wrote to me:

    ...provided a confirmation that the SSD version of flash is "higher quality".

    I'd hope so considering the cost however if you get the more expensive
    high
    capacity SD cards their quality is much better.

    Later,
    Sean

    what computer system are you using?
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